OBSERVE, UNDERSTAND AND REPRESENT AN ARCHITECTURAL SHAPE: METHODOLOGICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES

This paper deals with the learning path to teach the fundamentals of Descriptive Geometry, according to the experience I have gained in teaching over the years in different courses for first-year students of architectural studies at the Polytechnic of Turin. In teaching the same discipline in different fields of study -with very different addresses- leads to calibrate language and applications in order that they be contextual. There are different teaching models, the chosen one is an active exercise of cognitive functions. It uses practical experience leading to theoretical acquaintance with also a new way to observe and think by simple redrawing’s exercises or physical modeling that becomes visible and tangible geometry.